Commentary on the research industry, and short briefs from studies we ran ourselves. Posts drafted with AI are labelled, and a person on our team reviews each one before it appears here.
A new development-effectiveness report points to a persistent gap between commitments to country ownership and the information used to manage aid. Research teams should treat that gap as a question about who can inspect, challenge and use the evidence.
56.8% of respondents who answered the storage-access question said they lacked access to proper storage or cold rooms. Respondents also frequently selected bad roads as a transport challenge and better storage as a way to reduce waste.
Afrobarometer’s survey puts everyday service and livelihood concerns beside the agendas of development-cooperation experts. The useful lesson is not to discard long-term reform, but to test whether it answers the problems citizens actually name.
46.4% of respondents who answered the training question said they received safety compliance training regularly. Lack of resources was the most frequently selected barrier among those who answered the barriers question.
A model given information about real panelists still produced a different picture of public opinion. Research teams should distinguish useful questionnaire experiments from evidence gathered directly from people.
ODK Collect works offline by design. The interesting engineering is not the collection — it is what happens when a week of interviews finally reaches a server.
Most survey platforms pay out of revenue. We fund rewards into escrow before a survey goes live, and the difference matters most on the day something goes wrong.
Scraped data is getting more expensive by the lawsuit. The alternative is not better scraping — it is asking, and being able to prove you asked.
